Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Launches Rural Health Strategy Initiative
Rural providers that feel like Medicare isn't doing enough to help cope with difficulties specific to those areas have some encouraging news. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched its "first Rural Health Strategy intended to provide a proactive approach on healthcare issues to ensure that the nearly one in five individuals who live in rural America have access to high quality, affordable healthcare," the agency says in a release. "For the first time, CMS is organizing and focusing our efforts to apply a rural lens to the vision and work of the agency," CMS Administrator Seema Verma says in a release. "This strategy will enhance the positive impacts CMS policies have on beneficiaries who live in rural areas." The strategy's goals include improving access to care "through provider engagement and support" and advancing telehealth and telemedicine, CMS says. More information is online at http://go.cms.gov/ruralhealth.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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